Twisted Sideways

I find that I might be a bit of a contradiction.  I don’t go see movies all that often.  Although I do love them, I just don’t find that I go to the movie theater that often to catch the recent releases.  However, I always tune into the Oscars.  A lot of it has to do with the production value, sets, and the way they run the show.  I’m a bit of a nerd in that area to be honest.  I’m usually looking for camera men, backstage people and other things the usual person doesn’t look for.  I think it’s one of the reason that I like “Season 25″ the behind the scenes show that follows Oprah and her crew around as they put together many of the shows 25th Season episodes.

Here’s the short of what I thought of the 2011 Academy Awards show: BORING.  Granted, I didn’t watch any of the pre-show crap as I don’t really care who or what is wearing who or what and how bad or good they look in the tux that looks like something I wore in the last wedding I was in but really is a $2000 tux.  Same goes for all the dresses and hairdos of all the leading ladies – although I do find it fasinating how, when watching some of the movie clips, they are able to make these people look so different in the role they are playing.

I was bored – there were no good set’s.  No good entertainment value.  Unless you want to count the number of different dresses that Anne Hathoway changed into through out the night.  Her Co-Host, James, was boring too.  Most of the night he stood there and looked off camera until he was his turn to read a line.  He was stiff and didn’t even look like he was into it.  Overall, I was pretty board and I ended up fast-forwarding through most of the speeches.

I know the Academy is trying to cut back on costs and stuff, but I just didn’t think anything about this years Oscar’s was good.